Top 49 Nadeem Aslam Quotes
#1. In some respects, grief for the lost and missing is worse than grief for the dead, and sometimes just for a fraction of a second its intensity makes her wish Mikal would cease to exist, so she wouldn't have to wonder if she will ever see him again.
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#2. The West wants unconditional love; failing that, unconditional surrender.
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#3. You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.
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#5. Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
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#6. Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world.
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#7. But have you ever heard a story in which the evil person triumphs at the end?"
The boy thought for a while before replying.
"No," he said, "but before they lose, they harm the good people. That is what I am afraid of.
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#8. This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.
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#9. When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it.
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#10. Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka.
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#11. We are warriors of Allah."
"You are thugs with Korans.
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#12. If I take dust in my hand and ask you if that is all the dust there is, you will answer that dust is everywhere on earth. More specks than can ever be numbered. So I can give you a handful of truth only. Besides this there are other truths. More than can ever be numbered.
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#13. We are not men of hate, but we must be men of justice.
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#14. As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam's rib. Now, at the other end of his life, these decades later, he knows it was because the rib is close to the heart.
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#15. On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step
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#16. A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
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#18. He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young in order to entrap them in otherworldly world.
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#19. There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.
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#20. If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old.
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#21. All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
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#22. The young everywhere ... would prefer to live in houses that consist only of doors.
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#23. Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.
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#24. To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.
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#25. What strange times are these," says Tara as they wend their way through the dead to safety, "when Muslims must fear other Muslims.
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#26. Wolves exhibiting strange behaviour
caught in traps and thrashing about, injured by other creatures or by bullets, pups suffering from epilepsy
are attacked and killed by their pack members. But here everyone is human and must try to understand each other's mystery. Each other's pain.
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#27. The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.
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#28. Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.
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#29. How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
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#30. The bigger the sin, the rarer and more expensive the bird that is needed to erase it. Is that how the bird pardoner conducts his business? A sparrow for a small deception, but a paradise flycatcher and a monal pheasant for allowing a doubt about His existence to enter the mind.
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#32. He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.
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#33. All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
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#34. The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.
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#35. Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
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#36. The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living.
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#37. The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
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#38. The neighbourhood is a place of ... intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.
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#39. Wounds are said to emit light under certain conditions - touch them and the brightness will stay on the hands - and as candles burn Rohan thinks of each flame as an injury somewhere in his house.
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#40. As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
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#41. Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.
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#42. There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
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#43. The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
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#44. I don't feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.
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#46. Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.
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#47. Shamas stands in the open door and watches the earth, the magnet that it is, pulling snowflakes out of the sky towards itself.
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#48. Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes of a rapacious civil war.
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#49. There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
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